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Nokia N93i vs 6630: The progress we have accomplished with camera phones

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By: , IntoMobile
Monday, February 19th, 2007 at 11:13 AM

James compares the seemingly ancient 6630 with his brand spanking new N93i.

Are we even surprised by these results? I’m going to have to agree with him: I simply can’t wait to see what the future brings!

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Want to see something more impressive?

How about a 6 Megapixel point and shoot camera made by Casio that is 16 mm thick. Check out the quality of an image it produced:

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(photo from Flickr)

16 mm thick! Just to give you an idea how that number compares: Nokia’s best camera phone, the N73 is 19 mm thick.

Would you be willing to sacrifice having a slim phone in order to have a higher quality camera?

I would in a heart beat.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • viipottaja

    The problem is of course that, IMO, a cam only digi cam is a VERY simple machine if one compares it with a amazingly complex, multitasking 3G phone.. yet camera makers require about the same space/size to make a decent one.

  • pavle

    personally i’ll never use 16 mm thick dig. camera or phone and i would sacrifice having the slim phone :)

    but i still don’t think that is possible to put optics as good as they are in dig. cams. in phone. When it comes to optics, it’s all about how big is something.

    hm.. maybe (for beginning) use of CCD sensors instead of CMOS. :)

  • James @ The Creative Life

    It seems pretty obvious that camera phones will always be one step behind dedicated cameras. But that’s like saying that personal computers will always be one step behind Pixar’s rendar farm! It’s horses for courses, as will say here in the UK.

  • James @ The Creative Life

    Please excuse my spelling . . . that was ‘render’, not ‘rendar’! And ‘we say’, not ‘will say’!! What an idiot I am sometimes!

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I just wish Nokia and Canon engineers would get together in a room and pop out something absolutely amazing.

    Silly dreams.